Quotes About Protest

The '60s were an amazing time.

T]hey don't care about realpolitik or the big picture. They only care about monkey-wrenching and whistle blowing.

Cheered on by other motorists the lorry driver urinated over the nearest three protesters.

In such ugly times, the only true protest is beauty.

Call it peace or call it treason, call it love or call it reason, but I ain't marching anymore.

I can't be a man in this society unless I am in opposition to power. So, resistance is always synonymous with humanity.

Protesting against the coalition government, they advocated conscription up to fifty, closure of all German-owned businesses, internment of enemy aliens, conscription in Ireland and counter air raids against German towns.

thought that was the whole idea of the German Reformation. To abolish priestly intercession.

En France, des centaines de milliers de personnes défilent pour défendre l'école privée, qu'ils appellent l'école libre. La captation, l'usurpation de cet adjectif me rend fou. Ma conscience politique s'éveille.

When people lost faith in their government, the result was revolution.

en substituant au fait la protestation contre le fait, ne s'efforce-t-on pas, le plus souvent avec succès, de se persuader qu'un groupe capable de protester contre son propre privilège n'est pas un groupe privilégié ?

In 1989, I was on Tiananmen Square with the students, living in their makeshift tents and joining their jubilant singing of the Internationale. In the two decades since, each time that I have gone back, visions from those days seem to return with increasing persistence.

Because I helped organize non-violent protest in Chicago, New York and Washington, I am denied the fundamental freedom to travel to London, even for the purpose of visiting my daughter.

Nonviolent, visual protests have a long history of forming images that can quickly go viral and set a powerful tone for a moment.

It is vital to speak up in a democracy. Otherwise we are living in dictatorships.

There is nothing negative about a group of people crying out for democracy - and if my voice counts, I will be vocal.

We are so vocal about what we hate.

I realize that protest paintings are not exactly in vogue, but I've done many.

I should like to be remembered as the man who raised a voice against... placing limitations on the freedom of the individual.

I would rather be without a state than without a voice.

You can't speak as a conservative on campus without being boycott, without being protested, without students lining up and playing music loudly so that they can drown out the sound of your voices.

The court today, just as in 1776, is deaf to the voices of the people and their repeated entreaties: they have become arrogant, contemptuous, highhanded, and literal despots.

As the remaining voices for civil disobedience are suppressed, the political spectrum narrows even further.

I was disappointed, not because we had lost the war but because our people had allowed it to go on for so many years, instead of heeding the few voices of protest against all that mass insanity and slaughter.